One factor is that Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT were released within 3 months of each other – August 22, 2022 and November 3, 2022, respectively. That brought a

One factor is that Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT were released within 3 months of each other – August 22, 2022 and November 3, 2022, respectively. That brought a lot of attention and excitement to the field. More excitement, more people, more work being done, more progress. Of course those two releases didn't fall out of the sky.